Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
I have another puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doom-pa-da-dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me

What do you get from a non-clam guess?
Alex will not tell you that is a yes.
Why don't you try simply staying calm?
Or can you just do your score total harm.

The game had no mention of Paris Themmen’s famous role of playing Mike Teevee. Paris did get a message to his wife Nikki Grillos: http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=10233 in BEN-HUR $800 when he responded correctly to the polygamous clue and added a, “Sorry, Nikki.”

Paris and Zach were tied for success on the FJ! round clue. Paris won the J! round. Zach won the match in the DJ! round by adding $10K to his score while Paris went from 8800 to begin the round to 3400 coming out of it.

Even if Paris had solved DD3 he would have trailed for the FJ! round as +5000 coupled with the last $1200 clue would not have been enough.

The FJ! clue was a 50/50/90 for me as I got to the author and picked the wrong work. It’s a fair penalty for me as I know the titles, Howard Roark, John Galt, architect and that’s about all. It would have been helpful to know one work was 1940s and one was 1950s, but I did not have that in the Yearodex even though the works have plenty of previous J! usage.

It’s not like I solved the other FJ! clues about the author and her works, so it’s one more miss.

For Hammer and anyone else in the NHOI group the previous appearance was:
#7620, aired 2017-10-27 AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200

Interesting that Zach's anniversary story airs the day before Pi Day. Methinks that if these shows had originally been scheduled to air this week (rather than having been moved due to Alex's surgery), that story would have been saved for tomorrow's episode.

Paris had an absolutely brutal DJ! round (-$5,400), but at least he got to give an apologetic shout-out to his wife, S32 champ Nikki Grillos.

McKayle rushed DD2 and paid for it. That $4,000 swing would have, all else being equal, put her in a tie for first going to FJ! It didn't matter since Zach solved FJ! and she didn't, but it would have been interesting to see the wagers.

I had a really costly brainfart on Acronyms $2000. I got the SAL letters correct and managed to bungle the T (I said treaty), despite the fact that it was given in the clue. Good thing that happened at home rather than on stage.

Yep, The Dark Man pulls out the win and gets to have a pi day show. Way to come back strong!

Of course, we were all screaming for Paris. His every correct response signalled us to take another bite of choco truffle bar or Little Debbie Nutty Buddy and wash it down with hot cocoa. In the J! round, we gobbled that stuff down with great abandon and hooted our approval. In DJ!
a lonely morsel was poised at my lips and ready to be chomped for what seemed like forever. My kids cried foul when they saw me take a nibble while Zach maintained control.

I did not know FJ. Mildred Pierce came briefly to mind, but I knew it was too early.

Now I feel like an idiot. I was trying to remember which one had Howard Roark, figuring his being an architect was the business connection. I decided it was Atlas Shrugged. I didn't realize I was wrong until I Googled it just now.

Never been on J!, but once won a knockoff version that aired on local access TV.

I remember The Fountainhead is about an architect because a fountainhead sounds like something an architect might design. I still wrote down both of her books, but crossed out the wrong one and got it right.

We had another category be out of whack thanks to the time shift. But it made Zach’s story much more timely.

Strangely, the top box was my only miss in It's Trademarked. I just couldn't sift through all the synonyms to get to "seeing eye dog" in time.

I know that Atlas Shrugged was written in the 1950s by a woman named Ayn Rand. But none of that surfaced in the 30 seconds. Another 30 seconds and I might have dredged it up, but I just had nothing.

My apologies for including you in my remarks. You have heard of the work. We'll take it. You were in better shape than me as it sounds like if you had had it down to a 50:50 you would have gone the right way. And, for one of the right reasons with the decade knowledge.

My apologies for including you in my remarks. You have heard of the work. We'll take it. You were in better shape than me as it sounds like if you had had it down to a 50:50 you would have gone the right way. And, for one of the right reasons with the decade knowledge.

I think the other factor is that I keep forgetting that she also wrote The Fountainhead. I guess either it's because Atlas Shrugged is a more Hawley-Smootish title in my mind, or because I remember Atlas Shrugged being referenced in an early South Park episode.

I've never been much interested in reading Rand but still I love the sheer outrageousness of the movie of The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. (Hey, Willie Wonka connection!) So I knew the book was too early to be '50s, and I went with the other one...

I was a devotee of Ayn Rand's writings back in the day, and read (and re-read) Atlas Shrugged several times. Indeed, I heard her speak about the book in a public forum. It is inconceivable that she would have characterized Atlas Shrugged as a business book. Rather, it is a sweeping novel, with a strong philosophical theme (what happens when wo/men of the mind go on strike), that has business people as several of its central characters. The wording of the FJ clue was misleading.